A blog by Daedalus, an inventor of Mythic Proportion. It will mostly focus on my current projects to save the World, of which there are now 2, Global warming mitigation, and repairing the deficient nitric oxide physiology that most individuals have.

A good place to start is always QuackWatch. Which has a nice discussion of the “theory” behind homeopathy and how it is only a placebo. Another good site is What's the harm, a site that documents the real harms that can come from using placebos like homeopathy instead of real treatments.

It is a pretty sad state of affairs when a big corporation uses hired lawyers as shills to try and keep people from speaking the truth, and when governmental laws and regulations allow them to do so. I am not the only one who thinks so, those of us in the reality based community are opposed to magical thinking fake treatments such as homeopathy.

I think you nearly started to understand the views of anti-psychiatry. This is a label that has been forced upon us and not one we have accepted.

Now as you understand. supposing a child has been subject to terrible abuse. Of course this will effect that child's mood, thoughts and behaviour. Dr. Novella will state that this is due to a mental illness. Like diabetes. To be 'cured' by psychiatric drugs. This is a dismissal of the person and their experience. We think the actual cure is somewhere else. That is all.

I found your blog after seeing your comments posted at various sites that I follow. I have really enjoyed reading through your posts these past few days.

I must admit that I started out curious but skeptical of your ideas on Nitric Oxides importance to health.

Now that I have reached this particular post of yours I see your blog has been dormant for some time.

Is Nitric Oxide physiology no longer the focus of your attention?

I recall a particular comment I saw of yours that read something like "there is no aspect of human health that it does not have major effects on". This a very big claim and I am curious to know if you still stand by it?

I ask these questions out of a personal interest in alzheimer's and nitric oxides involvement in musculoskeletal health.

Edward, Yes I am still working on NO physiology and it is even more important than I have previously indicated. I am making good progress in commercializing my discovery and will be rolling it out in the near term.

Joy, I don't remember that communication at all, but SSRIs are pretty safe and effective. Sertraline can be pretty good, if it works.

The most fundamental dose response is hormesis. All compounds exhibit hormesis. If a compound doesn't exhibit hormesis, then you are not in the low-dose range.

To the extent that physiology is coupled together and "in sync", there must be a synchronizing signal. If physiology is "synchronized", there can be only one synchronizing signal. I am pretty sure that NO is that singular synchronizing signal.

I've read that switching from mouth breathing to nasal breathing increases NO production (from PubMed). Would that be an effective pathway to increase NO levels (additionaly to AOB, Nitrates ingestion, etc)

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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool. Richard P. Feynman

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What I write and post is believed (by me) to be accurate and correct and well documented by facts and logic (though the train of thought is not always posted). If anyone finds it to be otherwise, I would appreciate notice to that effect, and I will expand the explanation in that area. Or, if I am wrong, will revise my conceptualization of the Macrocosmic All.
Competing financial interest: I am working on researching and commercializing products using skin resident commensal autotrophic ammonia oxidizing bacteria to naturally supply basal NO under normal physiological control via sweating to prevent and treat a number of disorders, including ASDs. Patents issued and applied for.
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I have added ads to monitize this blog to support Doctors without borders in conjunction with the Silence is the Enemy campaign.

The ads have no relationship to my work on NO and I am contractually forbidden from commenting about them. They likely switch for different users. I suspect they will talk about nitric oxide. If anyone has any questions about any aspect of nitric oxide, leave them in a comment and I will try to answer them.